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Previous Principals & Presidents
Mary Lyon
Founder and Principal
1837–1849


Mary C. Whitman ’39
Principal
1849–1850


Mary W. Chapin ’43
Principal
1850–1865


Sophia D. Stoddard ’41
Acting Principal
1865–1867


Helen M. French ’57
Principal
1867–1872


Julia E. Ward ’57
Principal
1872–1883


Elizabeth Blanchard ’58
Principal and President
1883–1889


Mary A. Brigham ’49
President Elect
1889


Louisa F. Cowles ’66
Acting President
1889–1890


Elizabeth Storrs Mead
President
1890–1900


Mary E. Woolley
President
1900–1937


Roswell G. Ham
President
1937–1957


Richard Glenn Gettell
President
1957–1968


Meribeth E. Cameron
Acting President
1968–1969


David B. Truman
President
1969–1978


Elizabeth T. Kennan ’60
President
1978–1995


Joseph J. Ellis III
Acting President
Spring, 1984


Peter Berek
Interim President
Fall, 1995


Beverly Daniel Tatum
Acting President
Spring, 2002


Joanne V. Creighton
President
1996–2010


Note: Prior to 1888, the official title of the head of the institution was “principal.”

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